The Dillon tribune., 1887-10-07
GLEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES.
Events Transpiring in Our sister states
and Territories.

and Territories.
The map Of Laramie county, Wyoming,
is to be rcmodeled SO as to show the
school districts. An excellent idea.
The Water Conpany's larg. barn and
stables at Virginia City, New, was burned
on the ,7th. Loss $1,000 to $4,000.
Denver Republican: The county fairs in
Colorado this fall are superior in their en-
hibits to any that have heretofore been
held in the State.
Beaver Canyon, Idaho, is said to be with
out postoffice. ]. Burnside who had been
postmaster there for several years resigned,
and II. Spencer was appointed but failed to
qualify.
John Morgan, pioneer Of '46, and
prominent citizen, died on the Goth at San
Jose, Gala, after short time. He was
leading member Of the Irish National
League.
]. G. Hamilton lately struck a magnifi.
cent flowing artesian we'll on his property
in the center Of lIollister, San Benito
county, Gala. The depth OF the we'll is
only IA feet.
The jury in the case of Baldwin VS.. the
California Southern Pacific Railroad, tried
at Los Angeles, Gala, for damages by a
locomotive setting hay on fire, awarded
damages to the plaintiff for $3.50.
Lyon County (Idaho) Times: People
who think they know what the Piutes are
talking about are fixing up their houses
and fixing up an abundance Of firewood,
preparatory for long, hard winter.
Governor Torres, Of Sonora, Mexico,
will ride in palace car, with party of
eight or ten, Of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Te Road on trip he is contempla-
ting to Chicago and other Eastern points.
A rich strike Of chlorides in the Satel-
lite mine on Iron Hill at Leadville, Colo.
rado, is reported in the Denver News,
which speaks of it as the most important
strike that has been made lately in the
new mines.
Eight miles from Salmon City, Idaho,
on the west side Of the Salmon river, the
! gold mine Of o. T. Baker is proving rich
Recently two ounces and a half Of decom-
posed quartz produced nearly half tea
spoonful Of gold.
A coyote near Walla Walla was attack.
+ ed by an immense hawk that hit him fair
on the back Of the head. The coyote would
duck his head, then duck his body, then
make snap at the hawk, but could not
reach it, and at the end Of twenty minutes
was literally picked to death.
Mrs. William Morrison, the wife of
farmer living near the Fresno and San
Benito county line, in California, recently
died from the effects of blows received
from whip in the hands Of Mrs. Bradley,
a neighbor, the blows being administered
at the instigation Of her) husband and a
man named Beckett, who were present
: The parties have been arrested.
During the term of District Court now
in session at Tacoma, Washington Terri.
tory, twenty Cinnamon will be prosecuted
, for illegally entering the United States,
They were caught within the past month
at the towns of Blaine and Whatcomb. on
Puget Sound near the British boundary.
and came from British Columbia. The
penalty is one years imprisonment and a
fine Of $1,000.
Among the other relics Of the mound
builders discovered near DEVILS Lake,
Dakota by Prof Montgomery, of the
North Dakota University, is what he calls
a sacriicial mound in which, seventeen
inches from the surface, are wells, easily
found because OF a lining of lime about
The sides and layers Of bark on the bottom.
The sides are deep enough to hold bodies
in sitting positions.
William Bachman, a member of the
firm of Trabing Il Co.. at Laramie CITY.
Wyoming, co rmitted suicide on the Roth
ult. by shooting himself. lie was a Young
man who had only been married shor,
. time, and the only explanation for the sui
eide is the fact that Bachman had been sick
; for week, and it is thought in fit of de-
spondency his mind became unbalanced
and he committed the rash act of taking
his own lifc
Suit has been commenced in the District
Court at Yakima, w. T., by II. J. Snive,y,
attorney for plaintiffs, against the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company, for dam.